Thank you for appearing before committee today. I know they're hot seats, but we need you here.
To follow up on what my colleague Mr. Hoback is saying, I have an article here from The Globe and Mail that was written in November:
CN spokesman Mark Hallman said the backlog of grain at the elevators is a supply chain issue that has nothing to do with the amount of oil being shipped by rail, and more railcars is not the answer. “Throwing more hopper cars into the supply chain is not going to work. It’s like morning rush hour on the freeway. You put too many cars on the road, the road gets plugged and everything else slows to a crawl,” he said.
That was before the cold snap, so it kind of goes to what Mr. Hoback is saying that there was a shortage before the cold snap. What's your answer to that, please, both from CN's perspective and CP's?